i am black and support taking the handcuffs off the word many of us use it in the culture and among us there is no pain in its usage i think that we should be taking it ten steps further and relishing in the full ownership of it i have somebody use call me nigger in the past and replied yes do we know each other i wish i could have captured the confusion on that womans face we have to get over being so emotional about it that we start being agitated from hearing it especially when it is said in a historical context or some other non threatening form